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...George Dunlap (Albert Finney) wants to do is to give his 13-year-old daughter a typewriter for her birthday. It is hardly the impossible dream; it isn't even an unreasonable request. But George recently walked out on his wife Faith (Diane Keaton) and their four daughters, for all those vague but somehow imperative reasons for which people leave people these days, and Daughter Sherry (Dana Hill) is not buying any of them. Nor is she covering her confusion with forgiveness. Better just not to speak to the creep. When Faith tries to avoid a scene by keeping...
...Finney's fuzziness, that slightly out-of-focus quality he often has onscreen, here serves his befuddled character perfectly. Keaton has the courage to let tiredness show in the lines around her mouth and eyes, to stipulate that she is the victim in this situation and then get on to other more interesting situations. Nobody ever tries to explain why the nice, successful Dunlaps are breaking up. These days, who knows? All anyone can say with certainty is that theirs is now among the most familiar of passages, and that Shoot the Moon is the best chart...
From this nonsense emerges an eerie, seductive thriller that works equally as a mordant police procedural, an occult horror story and an ambivalent look at aborigines fighting for tradition in the technological age. Dialogue is cynical and the cast beguilingly quirky, notably Albert Finney as a detective and Gregory Hines as a manic, mock-suave coroner. Visual effects evoke for the audience the heightened senses of a preternatural predator...
...started off easily enough with the Crimson piling up a 12-point lead during the field events and long-distance races. Crimson rack victories supplied the bulk of the points, but a fourth-place finish by Mary Ellen Finney in the shot put, and third-and fourth-place finishes by Debbie Markson and Beth Cooley in the discus provided essential points for the final tally...
Most actors worry about what winds up on the cutting-room floor after a film has been shot. Albert Finney, 44 (Tom Jones, Murder on the Orient Express), got the worst over with first. For his role as Multi-millionaire Daddy Warbucks in the film Annie, directed by veteran John Huston, Finney had his sandy hair shorn, lock, shock and cowlick. Said he afterward: "I've heard that the first thing a woman notices about a man is his hair." Finney, who will get $1 million for five months of shooting, need not worry about such a hairbrained notion...